When only having 140 characters goes wrong…

The Portugal and Real Madrid superstar has been running a competition lately as part of his gig promoting a range of underwear for boys. The prize for sending him the “best, craziest or funniest fan image showing your love to CR7″ was a trip to see Ronaldo in action with Madrid.

As the contest drew to a close, he sent out a tweet thanking those who had gotten involved. The wording, however, was slightly dodgy to say the least.

The tweet has now been deleted but here’s a screen grab of it:

Ronaldo later clarified his position in two other tweets.

Just realize that there’s a lot of buzz around my #cr7underwear collection for kids.